February 17, 2008
Man Sues FDNY For Dropping Him Down Stairs
James Maietta probably wishes that he lived in an elevator building; especially after firefighters accidentally dropped him down a flight of stairs in November 2006. The 15-foot fall left Maietta crippled and confined to a Yonkers nursing home for a year. Now the man is suing the FDNY.
The incident occurred on November 23, 2006, after Maietta called 911 with health complaints and asked to be taken to a hospital. The man weighs 515 pounds, suffers from diabetes, and is unable to walk. Eventually, the fire department was called in to attempt to remove Maietta from his apartment. To get him down the stairs, firefighters rigged a plywood platform to a rope-and-pulley system.
Maietta claims that he was not tied down to the platform as ten men negotiated him down the stairway. He said that he told firefighters he was slipping off their makeshift gurney and was told "No you're not," before falling off the plywood and crashing down the cement stairs into a wall. His lawsuit details injuries to his neck, back, and legs. His lawyer said they are seeking damages in the seven figures range; The New York Sun quoted the number $5 million last week.
Firefighters are required to pass an annual fitness test to remain on the job. If they fail the test, they are removed from active duty and given an opportunity to improve. Members of the NYPD, on the other hand, face no barrier in remaining a cop no matter how out-of-shape they become.
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so this fat fuck just sits at home and eats all day, watches tv and surfs the internet while probably siphoning off government welfare funds and then calls the FDNY to take him to the hospital when his body has atrophied from sitting at home all day, watching tv, and surfing the internet and now he's suing the city for more money to sit at home all day, watching tv, and surfing the internet? this is why my rent is 2000+ a month in NY.
Let this be a lesson to FDNY. The next time you get a call from someone like this, forget the stairs and the gurney. Call in the construction crane. There's being overweight and then there's being just plain ridiculous.
He don't look an ounce over 450.
This guy's acting career must have gone nowhere after the Super Mario Brothers movie.
why does his head look so tiny?
You have GOT to be kidding. Get off your ass you fat f@%k!
I don't care if you are in a wheelchair. There is no excuse for letting yourself go that badly.
Cripes! Ever hear of a salad? (definitely not familiar with Subway either).
There should be laws of immunity for those helping people like this lazy glob of human waste - or some sort of service fee if you let your ass get bigger than the fridge.
I have a buddy who is a paramedic in NYC and he hates those fat bastards that sit in their apartments all day for years on end - living on welfare and eating McDonald's 3 and sometimes 4 times a day - and then when they need to go to the dr for their diabetes they don't fit on the gurny/through the door.
FDNY should have shoved an apple in his mouth and dug a pit out back for an old fashioned Cannibal BBQ! Looks like he could feed the entire block!
Hey James Maietta - you and your lawyer can go f@%k yourselves - I hope you lose and you end up eating Jenny Craig food for the rest of your life.
-HW
#[1] - I was kinda with you on this until your last sentence when you went off the rails.
That guys reminds me of Beetlejuice.
The fat fuck should just die.
What was that movie where Richard Widmark pushed the person in a wheel chair down the stairs? Now that's my kind of man.
he could suck my dick for 7 figures.
He has a shrunken head, no?
His head is the normal size for a piece of shit. It's the body that makes it look distorted. Most shit heads tend to be a bit smaller than normal, but they are not recognizably smaller visually.
How the hell is it possible that someone who can't walk lives in a walkup building?
And taxpayers have to foot the bill everytime this guy wants to roll outside and take in the sunshine in his wheelchair.
Ridiculous, City Hall, ridiculous.
It's an illusion. He is in one of those double-wide wheelchairs- it's like a sofa on wheels. It's hard to tell that in the pic cause there is no frame of reference. They should have put a big mac in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
He will have a hard time getting anything from the city - they have a great legal team. Hopefully they will counter sue to cover the costs incurred while trying to help that fat bastard (including legal fees!)
What an ingrate!
p.s. Why is he wearing a watch???
"gee, it's been fifteen minutes since I ordered those pizza's"
"oh goody, almost time for Oprah"
etc.
He's quite the fetching flower aint he.
He does have a strangely small head. He looks like a weeble-wobble.
Except he did fall down.
He does have a strangely small head. He looks like a weeble-wobble.
Except he did fall down.
He does have a strangely small head. He looks like a weeble-wobble.
Except he did fall down.
It was funny the first time, postgray.
As much as I'd like to make fun of fatty, the firefighters should really be prepared for these types of situations. And more so considering how fat people are getting these days.
there is no difference for the guy after the accident. they shouldn't give him any more money to spend watching tv etc...
What bothers me about this, isn't the fact that this man has basically handicapped himself through gluttony, but it is how entitled everyone in the US is becoming. I'm fairly certain that having a trained team of medical professionals show up at your home if you're ill, is actually one of the positives of living in the US in 2008. It isn't a right by a long shot. It's hideous how someone has the gall to sue people who were trying to assist him. How ungrateful can you possibly be?
James Maietta, be a man and act like a decent human being. How can you sleep at night knowing you are taking advantage of strangers who were trying to do something to help you stay alive? Litigiousness has spiraled so far out of hand it has become bad comedy. Onion headlines and 'real' headlines seem to move closer to each other every day.
"As much as I'd like to make fun of fatty, the firefighters should really be prepared for these types of situations. And more so considering how fat people are getting these days."
FDNY Firemen have been removing overweight civilians from their apartments and houses for YEARS. Probably since the 1800's. This type of thing happens about once a month in NYC.
They've used cranes, cut out entire sections of walls, removed window frames, taken off the front of houses...
Sounds to me like this is just a frivolous lawsuit so the guy can get his lipo paid for.
"As much as I'd like to make fun of fatty, the firefighters should really be prepared for these types of situations. And more so considering how fat people are getting these days."
FDNY Firemen have been removing overweight civilians from their apartments and houses for YEARS. Probably since the 1800's. This type of thing happens about once a month in NYC.
They've used cranes, cut out entire sections of walls, removed window frames, taken off the front of houses...
Sounds to me like this is just a frivolous lawsuit so the guy can get his lipo paid for.
Anyone over 500 lbs should simply be executed. You don't just wake up over 500lbs. That's a wanton and willful act of personal disregard for ones own health. He has forfeited all rights to proper medical care as well as any legal protection when it comes to his own health.
These fat people should all be in camps.